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Topic: FWK label, a great find,- ID = Welz (Read 1286 times)

had a great experience on one of my fleamarket strolls last Saturday. the storyhowever begins around last Easter...while browsing through the great-glass site i spotted a little vase in theirunknown Austro-Bohemian section bearing an FWK label. to avoid the impressioni was knowledgeable in any way - i had come across this label two days ago ondesignhandlung.de. Franz Welz Klostergrab.after an initial thought of "why contacting people you don't know.." I decided"why NOT contacting people you don't know..."so I let them know about my find, gave them the link to it, got a nice reply andthought "so much for it!".I had further looks at the vase from time to time and began to like it more and more.such vivid colours!last weekend however i made an excellent find: a lidded box with exactly the samedecoration! assuming there are not too many of these around - what a coincidence!i like to think (a tiny superstitious bit) it was a quantum of karma.here's a picture of it:http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11883needless to say: i was told it is Murano!

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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." - Groucho Marx

Ohhhh Dirk, that *is* unusual! What an interesting story.... I think we need to move this over to GLASS as we'll lose it from Cafe after so long, and it's a useful piece of information as well as your story.

I tend to think that your 'eye' becomes attuned to a design, you may well have seen them before but gave them no attention, this all changes when you sensitise yourself to something (sounds like awful waffle).The brain is very good at pattern recognition, most (if not all) of the processing goes on in the background and our conscious minds are only alerted to any 'interesting' results, everything else is ignored. Recently I can not stop finding Whitefriars bud vases, much to the delight of a friend who loves Whitefriars.

When he sent me the images, it turned out that I had just missed a pink Welz on ebay that I could not identify that was the same as the first vase on the top shelf.... The pictures on ebay were not good, but the shape and color are pretty definitive (in hindsight).

I quite often see interesting pieces, very similar to the orange bits with the black combed effect, often attributed wrongly to WF, but without the contrasting yellow blobs at the base. I've always wanted to know what they are. They "speak" of a competence and good quality, but have always been left behind to pacify my OH who is fed up of glass everywhere, and I haven't bought "bits which will probably prove to be interesting" for years.....

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Cheers, Sue (M)

Three Wise Women would have asked for directions, arrived on time, delivered the baby, cleaned the stables and made a casserole...

One of a million reasons to buy further glass could be: I've got one, I could have another in a different colourway. So here's another Welz lidded box. With 10cm in diameter it's a bit smaller than my first one. Seems I'll need a blue and turquoise one now.